Denial“No, no, and no again! You surely cannot be serious, Inspector.” Chief Inspector Joshua Madden was almost apoplectic in his rage, his face flushed red, his eyes burning with anger.
“But, sir…”
“But sir, nothing! I've never heard anything so preposterous in my life. You should be at the Carriage Works, searching for evidence in this latest murder and instead, you come here, throwing your ridiculous theory in my face as if it's irrefutable proof. It just won't do, Norris. It really won't.”
Norris was himself becoming angry at the chief inspector's refusal to listen to him, and to accept what Norris felt to be the solution to the case.
“Sir!” he shouted, feeling that a show of belligerence was the only way he was going to get through to his boss. “Do you really think I'd have left t
